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Risk management

Define invalidation before entry, limit risk per trade and measure outcomes in R.

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Market structure

Separate trends, consolidation, breaks of structure and retests from retrospective narratives.

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Sound backtesting

Include spread, slippage, commissions, missing data and an in-sample/out-of-sample split.

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Pre-trade checklist

The data source and timestamp are verifiable.
Invalidation is clear and the stop is defined before entry.
Risk/reward meets the strategy threshold.
The economic calendar does not introduce a blocked risk.
Position size respects the account risk limit.
The outcome will be journaled whether it is a profit or loss.